OliFeb 7

A surge in new datacenters, each with the power demand of 100,000 households and a cooling water demand of 1,000,000 m³ per year to train AI models on material obtained without consent on hardware now unaffordable to consumers so fascism-adjacent tech billionaires can sell us the idea that any skill is now worthless and in doing so creating the largest economic bubble ever while simultaneously destroying society and environment.

I think that about sums it up.

#genai #llm

Show threadBenFeb 7
@oli Celebrated and funded by the same people as cryptocurrency, which itself was designed only to kill the planet faster, help criminals, further the wealth gap, bribe politicians, divide society, harm the ability of democracies to adequately manage economies, AND do all of this in as stealthy a way as possible that is annoyingly difficult to stop and makes monsters of the people who join its cult.
Show threadBenFeb 7
@oli Forgot to mention that it also turns young men into gambling addicts at alarming rates.
Show threadtshepang
@ben444 how so
Feb 10 at 12:58pmWeb
Show threadBenFeb 10
@tshepang Crypto doesn't create any value. It's a giant zero-sum game where everybody is betting against everyone else. And I'm not even talking about all those meme-coins, those are basically glorified pump&dump schemes. Plus, there's a general trend towards gambling, particularly in the US, where everything is a bet now.